This week’s episode of NXT television is officially in the books and there were a few items worth passing along in what I’m simply calling a news dump to catch you up on the big stories coming out of the show.
New invitees in The John Cena Classic
The promos we heard they shot for John Cena inviting NXT wrestlers to his Classic next month aired on this week’s show. He invited Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic winners Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno before hitting up current Women’s Champion Kelani Jordan and doing the same for her.
Title matches
Speaking of Jordan,
she was confronted by Kendal Grey, who decided she is finally ready for her rematch for the women’s championship that she never got because she was so busy in therapy. General Manager Robert Stone agreed and set up the match for next week.
Grayson Waller was looking for a new title contender and Shiloh Hill tried to answer the call. He was told he’s not ready. Mason Rook returned and laid claim to the spot he was supposed to get before he had a health scare. In the main event, Zilla Fatu showed up to call out Waller as well. Saquan Shugars and the rest of the Darkstate dorks showed up to claim victory last week despite The 946 running them over. Birthright showed up to complain about Darkstate claiming they’re the top faction in NXT. Perros Del Mal joined the party and a huge brawl broke out. They never settled on who is next for Waller, or even how they may decide as much.
Elsewhere, Dar & Moreno were taken out in a backstage attack and they never ended up getting their shot at the tag team titles. Instead, Hank & Tank took their place and ended up losing to The Vanity Project because Dar & Moreno ran out to interfere. Hank & Tank were pissed about this and tried to fight the Dusty Cup winners. Weird!
Moving on
We wondered what would be next for Tony D’Angelo after five years in NXT and his being pushed out of the main event title picture. Well, Myles Bourne followed him around taunting him while Kam Hendrix laid him out backstage. He’ll work a singles match against Hendrix next week.
See you next time.
